Washington National Opera’s artistic director Francesca Zambello has made an ill-advised disclosure that her company is thinking of leaving the Kennedy Center amid a collapse in ticket sales and donor confidence.
‘It is our desire to perform in our home at the Kennedy Center,’ Zambello told a reporter for the Guardian newspaper. ‘But if we cannot raise enough money, or sell enough tickets in there, we have to consider other options.’
This is called shooting yourself in the mouth…